Personality

At least since Hippocrates, human beings have been trying to describe and analyze the behavioral and cognitive consistencies now referred to as personality. And in recent decades, no less than in the preceding centuries, they have generated a bewildering...

Drawing on the latest evidence from the disparate worlds of mental health and criminal justice, Managing Personality Disordered Offenders in the Community provides a practical guide to the management and treatment of a group who comprise some of the most...

A god transforms into a nymph and enchants another god.A king becomes pregnant.A prince discovers on his wedding night that he is not a man.Another king has children who call him both father and mother. A hero turns into a eunuch and wears female apparel...

Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual...

Originally published in 1983 and written in the tradition of the British School of Psychology, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck, Cattell, this book from a well-known author was exceptional at the time in its attempt to wed quantification and psychological theory...

The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment presents the state-of-the-art in the field of personality assessment, providing a perspective on emerging trends, and placing these in the context of research advances in the associated fields. * Explores...

Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications introduces students to many important figures in the field, including Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson, Maslow, Allport, Cattell, Bandura, Mischel, and others. The book not only covers...

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abilities. Rather than using twin and adoption studies, he analyses IQ tables that have been hidden in manuals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820434711Author Zdzislaw ChlewinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 330g

What a pity it would have been if biologists had refused to accept Darwin's theory of natural selection, which has been essential in helping biologists understand a wide range of phenomena in many animal species. These days, to study any animal species...

The Advances in Personality Assessment Series began in the early 1980s to facilitate the rapid dissemination of important new developments in theory and research on all aspects of personality assessment. Impressed with the extensive research on test...

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current ClinicalTechnique Offers the most current information for working with thischallenging client population and outlines proven treatment optionsfor borderline, narcissistic, and anti-social personalities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305147Author Mary Ann MattoonFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 813g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305062Author Mary Ann MattoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 636g

The Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT) is a semi-structured, graphic, performance-based personality test, created by Ehrig Wartegg (1939). With a foundation in Gestalt and Psychodynamic theory, the WDCT has been used widely throughout Europe, South...

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma - first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive...

"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501119965Author Brian R LittleFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & Schuster/ TedPublisher Simon & Schuster/ TedWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432971182Author Isabel ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Heinemann Library, Div of Reed ElsevierPublisher Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812862638Author BeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Scarborough HousePublisher Scarborough HouseWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 173mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316051903Author Professor Timothy D WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

A groundbreaking new behavioral model that explains what drives us, and why.From tireless marketers to pandering politicians, the forces of modernity have lulled us into lazy categorizations of people, erasing the natural nuances of being human. We are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892540341Author Marina ValcarenghiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This book profiles 12 militant leaders responsible for violence in Indian-administered Kashmir to identify effective deradicalization and counterterrorist interventions for global impact. Building off decades of research in cultural psychiatry, political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593235010Author Jenn GrannemanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient, the first book of non-fiction written by Gerald Alper, is also the first serious attempt to explore in depth the dynamics of the yet-to-be recognized, unfulfilled and usually perplexed fledgling artist. The...

Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and...

This book clarifies the issues borderline patients face in their daily lives and the attendant treatment dilemmas therapists confront. The authors offer a clear and concise stance for engaging this troubled and troublesome population, focusing in...

How do individual differences interact with situational factors to shape social behavior? Are people with certain traits more likely to form lasting marriages; experience test-taking anxiety; break the law; feel optimistic about the future? This handbook...

Cyberpsychology explores the connections between modes of information and the management of the individual in the context of new technologies. Tracing historical and contemporary lines of argument, the text brings together psychologists and cultural...

Psychology in Your Life, Fourth Edition, provides instructors and students with new research-based, inclusive solutions to today's teaching challenges. A new IMPACT learning scaffold guides students on how to best learn and retain course material and new...

The fields of social behaviour and personality had for the most part been studied separately, originally published in 1986, this title was one of the first to consider them together. Social behaviours and contexts are analysed and distinctions are...

There are many books to help you choose a career, but few to help you excel in the workplace once you are working. Over the course of a lifetime, people can spend 80,000 hours on the job. With this much time invested, author Donna Dunning asserts that...

These psychological dynamics are presented by way of the developmental and relationship experiences we have with the outside world -- alternations between conflict and a striving to revert back to earlier developmental phases. At any given moment of our...

Personality, Religion, and Leadership studies Jungian psychological type theory and the dynamic power of Jungian archetypes to help religious leaders understand and deal with their personal spiritual journey in times of stress and success, and enables...

Originally published in 1984, this title looks at the development of temperament in early life. At the time of publication there were three major perspectives of temperament: paediatrics, individual differences in infants and inherited personality traits...

This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests. It presents the background, research design, and procedures of...

Does happiness matter? What are happy people like? Can people enhance their sense of well-being? One of the most important movements in psychology during the past two decades, positive psychology is a discipline that seeks to understand the factors that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087861968Author Edward BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646042555Author Hannah AldereteFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press